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SUMMARY:Rutgers English Diversity Institute's Tour of the Scarlet Letterpress
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URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/rutgers-english-diversity-institutes-tour-of-the-scarlet-letterpress/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240418T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240418T180000
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SUMMARY:The Second Colloquium on Independent Publishing
DESCRIPTION:The Second Colloquium on Independent Publishing \nCome hear Dante Gonzalez present his “Edición\, Literatura y Pensamiento en Lenguas Originarias” (event in Spanish) and the subsequent conversation “Independent Publishing and the Sociology of Literature” with John Thompson\, Ana Cecillia Calle\, and Gustavo Guerrero\, with a response by Marcy Schwartz. \nThursday April 18 | 1:00 pm and 4:30 pm \nAcademic Building West Room 6051\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/the-second-colloquium-on-independent-publishing/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240417T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240417T183000
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SUMMARY:Self-Publishing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Self-Publishing Workshop \nCome learn abotu the world of spirit duplication. Bookseller and historian of radical publishing Brian Cassidy will provide an overview of these technologies and their use in early zines. Then try your hand at making your own ditto and hectography copies! All are welcome! \nWednesday April 17 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \nScarlet Letterpress | Murray Hall 309\, 510 George St.\, New Brunswick \nIf you have any questions\, email us at: book@cca.rutgers.edu \n  \nBryan Cassidy demonstration\n  \nPage in spirit solution\n  \n“This Machine Kills Facists” hand-drawn paper for spirit duplication
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/self-publishing-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20240115T121115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240304T123524Z
UID:1711-1712750400-1712755800@sites.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:Audiobooks: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Karl Berglund (assistant professor of literature at Uppsala University\, Sweden)\,  “The most difficult stage to study’? Understanding reading practices through streaming audiobook data” \n& \nJustin Tackett (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow\, English & Comparative Literary Studies\, University of Warwick)\, “Sound Technology and Vocalizing the Text”.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/audiobooks-a-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240320T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240320T140000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20240326T145135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T184142Z
UID:1757-1710925200-1710943200@sites.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:RIB and Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium Trip to Pergamena
DESCRIPTION:Photo of the four graduate students in front of a stretched goat skin.\n  \nOn March 20th\, 2024\, four graduate students from the Rutgers English Deparment were sponsored by the Rutgers Book Initiative and the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium to attend a five-hour tour and workshop at Pergamena: Handmade Parchments and Leathers. This event was organized by Novella Frasier and Alice Grissom\, both medievalists invested in material studies and historical practices of book (and manuscript) making. \nPergama rolles of stocked leather.\n  \nTwo graduate students posed in front of Pergamena’s leather stock.\n  \nPergamena is a family-owned leather and parchment making company. They have been making leather for over 400 years! \nStacks of stretched and drying parchment.\n  \nDuring this trip\, the graduate students learned the development process that Pergamena’s resident parchment expert and artist Jesse Meyer has developed and continues to experiment upon. The students were guided through the factory by Dave\, Liv\, and Jesse\, each member emphasizing the creativity and perseverance required to be a small business in such an industry as parchment and leather making. \nJesse Meyer demonstrates how to stretch and scrape parchment to the graduate students.\n  \nThe graduate students were enthusiatic\, not only to ask questions about the process\, production\, time requirements\, and chemical solutions\, but also in working with the materials themselves. Jesse demonstrated how to stretch and scrape the parchment\, after which the students were ready to get their hands working with the slimy material. \nJesse Meyer demonstrates how to hang the goat skin for scraping.\n  \nMimi McMillan skillfully scrapes the stretched goat skin. Novella Frasier lurks behind\, scraping another skin.\n  \nAlice Grissom and Mary Alcaro scrape streteched skins with dexterity.\n  \nAt the end of the visit and workshop\, the graduate students were allowed to browse the parchment stock to purchase any piece of their choosing. During which Dave showed them examples of different skins and details about them. \nThe graduate students look excitedly at parchment samples.\n  \nThe Rutgers Book Initiative and the Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium are incredibly happy with the success of the trip\, and with the educating experience the graduate students had. The trip to Pergamena has reinvigorated the graduate students’ and their colleagues’ appreciation for and attention to matieral studies and production. \n  \nIf you are interested in participating in a trip like this in the future\, or if you have recommendations for places to visit that involve book history and material studies\, please reach out to the Rutgers Book Initiative and/or the Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium. We hope to have more events like this in the future!
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/rib-and-medieval-renaissance-colloquium-trip-to-pergamena/
LOCATION:Pergamena – Handmade Parchment & Artisanal Leather\, 11 Factory St.\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Novella Frasier":MAILTO:novella.r.frasier@rutgers.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240229T123000
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SUMMARY:Serial Blackness & William Still's Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime talk by University of Delaware Professor\, Derrick Spires. Dr. Spires\, whose most recent book\, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States was published in 2019\, will be giving a talk called “Serial Blackness and William Still’s Underground Rail Road” about his current project.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/1735/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231130T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231130T140000
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CREATED:20230926T123707Z
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SUMMARY:Unbinding Latinidad: Book History and the Horizon of Publishable Latinidad
DESCRIPTION:A photo of Isabel Duarte-Gray before she gave her talk.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/unbinding-latinidad-book-history-and-the-horizon-of-publishable-latinidad/
LOCATION:Academic Building West\, CCA Room\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231116T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
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SUMMARY:The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
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URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/the-chapter-a-segmented-history-from-antiquity-to-the-twenty-fist-century/
LOCATION:Academic Building West\, CCA Room\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231107T171500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20230926T125104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T192835Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Party: Scarlet Letterpress
DESCRIPTION:RSVP: book@cca.rutgers.edu
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/launch-party-scarlet-letterpress/
LOCATION:Murray 309
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231102T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231102T140000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20230926T124453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231021T162909Z
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SUMMARY:Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery
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URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/inkface-othello-and-white-authoroty-in-the-era-of-atlantic-slavery/
LOCATION:Academic Building West\, CCA Room\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230416
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20230401T181503Z
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SUMMARY:Independent Publishing Perspectives from the Hispanophone World
DESCRIPTION:Independent Publishing Perspectives from the Hispanophone World \nApril 12-15\, 2023 \nThis conference convenes editors\, publishers\, and writers from Latin America and Spain to participate in a multi-day\, multi-university conversation on the state of independent book publishing in the Spanish-speaking world. Events will take place at Rutgers\, Columbia\, CUNY\, and NYU\, and will include a series of roundtables and discussion of current issues in literary publishing and distribution\, followed by a one-day book fair. Events will be in Spanish and English\, as indicated in the Conference Program. \nOpen to All
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/independent-publishing-perspectives-from-the-hispanophone-world/
LOCATION:Academic Building West\, CCA Room\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221116T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20220809T174016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T165146Z
UID:1112-1668618000-1668625200@sites.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion of Denise Gigante's Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion of Denise Gigante’s BOOK MADNESS : A Story of Book Collectors in America. \nWednesday\, Nov 16. 5pm – 7pm\nWith Jesse Erickson (Morgan Library)\, Melina Moe (Columbia University) and Heather O’Donnell (Honey & Wax Books). \nLocation: HYBRID \nOnline: REGISTER \nIn person: CCA\, Rutgers Academic Building West\, Room 6051 \nBook Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America tells the story of bibliophilia and book collecting in mid-nineteenth-century America when the country’s major libraries were being formed. Denise Gigante (Stanford University) is the author of half a dozen books including The Keats Brothers: The Story of John and George (Harvard University Press)\, a New York Times Notable Book. She is working to complete The Mental Traveller: A Blakean Pilgrimage through Medieval and Renaissance Iconography\, based on her Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University in 2020. \n 
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/panel-discussion-of-denise-gigantes-book-madness-a-story-of-book-collectors-in-america/
LOCATION:Academic Building West\, CCA Room\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221012T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20220809T154053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T204243Z
UID:1102-1665590400-1665597600@sites.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:Mexico's Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom and Political Culture Through Printing
DESCRIPTION:Corinna Zeltsman \, “Mexico’s Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom & Political Culture through Printing.”\nResponse by Marcy Schwartz (Professor of Spanish\, Rutgers.) Wednesday\, Oct 12. 4pm – 6pm\, Rutgers Academic Building West\, Room 6051. \nCorinna Zeltsman is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (University of California Press\, 2021)\, which received the Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association. Trained as a letterpress printer\, she is a senior fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/mexicos-workers-of-thought-rethinking-press-freedom-and-political-culture-through-printing/
LOCATION:Academic Building West\, CCA Room\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rutgers University":MAILTO:rich@sese.io
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220426T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220426T200000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20220401T161500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T184906Z
UID:965-1650996000-1651003200@sites.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:RIB Lecture Series presents Matthew Rubery: Podcasts\, Audiobooks\, and Podiobooks
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Rubery is a professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Harvard University Press\, 2016) and the coeditor of Further Reading (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, part of the series Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. \nApril 26 at 6:00pm \nPodcasts\, Audiobooks\, and Podiobooks \nResponse by Andrew Goldstone \nSponsored by the Rutgers Book Initiative at the Center for Cultural Analysis \nRoom 6051\, Rutgers Academic Building West
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/rib-lecture-series-presents-matthew-rubery-podcasts-audiobooks-and-podiobooks/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220419T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220419T170000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20220329T234514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T234514Z
UID:958-1650376800-1650387600@sites.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:Andrew Stauffer\, University of Virginia : Book Traces
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Stauffer of the UVA Department of English guides a scavenger hunt for annotated 19th-century books in the PS and PR sections of the Alexander stacks\, as a session of the Book Traces project on the afternoon of April 19th. Participants will convene at the start of the session in the JetStream (Room 404) for a debriefing before dispersing to levels 2B and 3 of Alexander Library. \nEvent sponsored by the Rutgers Initiative for the Book and organized by Leah Price (English). \nFollow Book Traces on Twitter @booktracesuva.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/andrew-stauffer-university-of-virginia-book-traces/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220310T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220310T193000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20220104T225011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T184511Z
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SUMMARY:Girls\, Zines\, and Their Travels: Imagining Lives\, Crafting Archives for a New Century [Rutgers Libraries]
DESCRIPTION:This year Professor Janice Radway will deliver the 36th annual Louis Faugères Bishop Lecture online on March 10\, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. \nJanice Radway is the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies and a professor of American studies and gender studies within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Radway is widely known for her scholarship on readers\, reading\, books\, and the history of middlebrow culture. \nHer topic is “Girls\, Zines\, and Their Travels: Imagining Lives\, Crafting Archives for a New Century.” \nA zine\, short for magazine or “fanzine\,” is a non-commercial\, handmade\, self-published resource often devoted to unique or specialized subject matter. Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives collects New Jersey and regional zines\, many of which were done by women and girls. \nThe finding aid can be viewed at \nhttps://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/11/resources/401 \nFor more information on zines and to view some examples from the Rutgers collection\, see https://libguides.rutgers.edu/RULcreate/zines \nAlso\, the Rutgers Art Library is currently hosting Take it with you\, an exhibition of work by Mason Gross students. Each student created a zine that reflects the themes of the piece displayed\, which visitors are welcome to take home while supplies last. For more on the exhibit\, see https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/news/take-it-you-now-display-rutgers-art-library \nTo register for the Bishop Lecture\, see https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/events/girls-zines-and-their-travels-imagining-lives-crafting-archives-new-century
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/girls-zines-and-their-travels-imagining-lives-crafting-archives-for-a-new-century-rutgers-libraries/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220228T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220228T170000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20220228T192536Z
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SUMMARY:Hemispheric and Transatlantic Archives Workshop: Researching Iberian\, Latin American\, Caribbean\, Latinx Collections [RU CLAS]
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 4\, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. \n4th Fl. Conference Hall\, Alexander Library\, CAC \nJoin us for hands on workshops\, presentations and exhibits highlighting an array of exciting materials (print and digital) for research and teaching in the arts\, humanities and social sciences relevant to these expansive transnational areas. \nThe guests are prominent research librarians at major research institutions and with extensive knowledge of research collections. \nPresenters: \n\nFernando Acosta\, Princeton University\nSarah Aponte\, CUNY-Dominican Studies Institute\nPaloma Celis-Carbajal\, New York Public Library\nLaura Martin\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nMartin Tsang\, University of Miami\n\nCo-sponsors: Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese\, Center for Latin American Studies\, RU Libraries\, School of Arts and Sciences Humanities Dean\, “Tres Marias” Camões/FLAD chair in Portuguese Studies \nThe event will be hybrid\, with some in-person participation and full accessibility via Zoom. \nClick Here to Register: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrde6vrTooGd1IgiU0KND7-x3NGoqmRtqz
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/hemispheric-and-transatlantic-archives-workshop-researching-iberian-latin-american-caribbean-latinx-collections-ru-clas/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220215
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20211031T162156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T201935Z
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SUMMARY:Douglass Day 2022
DESCRIPTION:https://dh.rutgers.edu/event/frederick-douglass-day-transcribe-a-thon/
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/douglass-day-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211118T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20210726T210953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T180353Z
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SUMMARY:Touch / teach: studying books in an unfinished pandemic
DESCRIPTION:November 18\, 2021 4:00pm \nWhat ways of teaching have we invented or reinvented after a year of hands-off reading (for those of us lucky enough to be working or learning remotely) and hand-to-hand transmission (for those essential workers who packed\, trucked\, sold or lent books)? How has the reading\, making\, repurposing\, circulating and banning of books shaped and responded to police violence and border crises? What pedagogical genres (discussion prompt\, field trip\, kit\, handout\, questionnaire\, network\, reading-list…) are worth experimenting with at a time of precarious labor and environmental devastation? \nMatthew Kirschenbaum (Professor of English and Digital Studies\, University of Maryland) \nKari Kraus (Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English\, University of Maryland) \nPriyasha Mukhopadhyay (Assistant Professor of English\, Yale) \nJonathan Senchyne (Associate Professor of Book History and Print Culture\, University of Wisconsin-Madison) \nRegister in advance at https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdO-rrj0oGtZuQ6i_TQD6xU1P2XtsUdXa
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/touch-teach-studying-books-in-an-unfinished-pandemic/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T203000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20211022T133159Z
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SUMMARY:The Words Turned Sideways - The 27th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium [RU Libraries]
DESCRIPTION:Information and registration here
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/the-words-turned-sideways-the-27th-annual-new-jersey-book-arts-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211013T164000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
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SUMMARY:Bookbinding workshop
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Javiera Barrientos \nIn this workshop you will learn basic pamphlet stitch techniques for making zines\, plaquettes\, chapbooks\, small journals and more. The session will include a brief introduction to the history of the tools and materials\, followed by making. \nJaviera Barrientos\, cofounder of the Center for the Studies of Pretty and Useless Things\, is a Chilean book historian and book binder. She has taught university courses in Chile and Argentina courses on the history of reading and the book and global early modern literature. \nNo previous knowledge required. In order to build community among students returning to campus for the first time\, priority will be given to first- and second-year graduate students of the English Department. Others are very welcome if space permits. If you’d like to participate but are not a G1 or G2 in English\, please email leah.price@rutgers.edu to be put on the waiting-list! \nRegister in advance here. \nTime: 13 October\, 4:40pm \nLocation: \nCCA Seminar Room \n15 Seminary Place \nRutgers Academic Building \nWest Wing\, Room 6107
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/bookbinding-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211012T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T180134
CREATED:20210930T015614Z
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SUMMARY:The Architecture of Books: The Artists’ Books of Golnar Adili [Rutgers Libraries]
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Special Collections and University Archives \nThe Architecture of Books: The Artists’ Books of Golnar Adili \nBook artist Golnar Adili will elaborate on her process-oriented approach in looking at the book as architecture in small scale\, and the importance in tactility\, be it in language or exploring the body.\nGolnar Adili is a mixed media artist\, educator\, and designer with a focus on diasporic identity and artist books. She holds a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts in Bellagio\, Italy\, The Center for Book Arts\, NY\, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the MacDowell Colony\, Ucross Foundation for the Arts\, Lower East Side Printshop\, Manhattan Graphics Center\, Women’s Studio Workshop\, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace among others.\nSome of the venues Adili has shown her work include\, Nurture Art\, Craft and Folk Art Museum LA\, CUE Art Foundation\, International Print Center NY\, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Some of the grants she has received include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant\, the NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books\, and the Jerome Hill Finalist Grant. Adili will be exhibiting her work at the Victoria Albert Museum as a Jameel Prize finalist this September in addition to her solo exhibition at the CUE Art Foundation in January curated by Kevin Beasley. Libraries that collect her artist books include Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives\, Library of Congress\, Rutgers University\, Yale University\, and University of Michigan.\nRegister here
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/the-architecture-of-books-the-artists-books-of-golnar-adili-rutgers-libraries/
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SUMMARY:Rutgers Book Initiative watch party: “Felon: A play; A discourse” by poet and scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts.
DESCRIPTION:Join colleagues for an in-person discussion of “Felon: A play; A discourse” by poet and scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts. \nFelon: An America Washi Tale is about re-imagining paper. A solo performance that begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell\, traverses stoves made of toilet paper\, kites from a father\, handwritten affidavits\, legal complaints\, handmade paper\, certificates of pardon\, & 1\,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences\, the variety of papers that reveals what is possible and burdened by prison. \nThere will be no advance reading. Instead\, we’ll view a simulcast of Betts’s lecture/performance “Felon: A Play\, a Discourse” at the Harvard Design School\, followed by an open discussion of paper\, incarceration\, and the book. RSVP: leah.price@rutgers.edu \nTime: 5 October\, 6:15-8:30pm \nLocation: \nCCA Seminar Room \n15 Seminary Place \nRutgers Academic Building \nWest Wing\, Room 6107
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/rutgers-book-initiative-watch-party-felon-a-play-a-discourse-by-poet-and-scholar-reginald-dwayne-betts/
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SUMMARY:Exploring Special Collections and University Archives: Why Study the History of the Book\, the Archaeology of Texts
DESCRIPTION:From Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University Libraries \nMartin Antonetti\,  Rare Books Assessment Librarian will speak on “Why Study the History of the Book\, the Archaeology of Texts” at the next Exploring Special Collections and University Archives program on Wednesday\, September 22 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. \nThe archaeology of the book–discovering clues in the physical medium of the codex–helps us understand how knowledge is transmitted from age to age. This talk will elucidate the “archaeological” approach that special collections librarians and archivists can bring to bear\, particularly in the classroom. \nRegister here
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/exploring-special-collections-and-university-archives-why-study-the-history-of-the-book-the-archaeology-of-texts/
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SUMMARY:Bodies of Evidence: A Very Brief History of Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers Book Initiative Lecture Series \n5 March at 4:30pm \nAlexander Library—Teleconference/Lecture Hall: Room 403. \n169 College Ave\, New Brunswick\, NJ \n“Bodies of Evidence: A very brief history of knowledge” \n(Jill Lepore | Kemper Professor of American History | Harvard University)
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/bodies-of-evidence-a-very-brief-history-of-knowledge/
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SUMMARY:Hydrocolonial Print Cultures: Coast\, Custom House and Dockside Reading
DESCRIPTION:Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature\, University of the Witwatersrand & Global Distinguished Professor\, NYU): \n\n“Hydrocolonial Print Cultures: Coast\, Custom House and Dockside Reading” \nWith a response by Meredith McGill (Professor of English\, Rutgers University) \n\nNovember 6 at 4:30pm \nSeminar room 6051\, CCA\, 15 Seminary Place\, New Brunswick \nQuestions: book@cca.rutgers.edu \nWhat does the oceanic turn mean for our understanding of book and print cultures?  There is of course a long tradition of work on print cultures\, port cities and transoceanic networks.  Yet\, much of this work takes the ocean as a backdrop\, more surface than volumetric depth.  Recent oceanic scholarship has been urging us to go below the water line\, to think in more ecological and material terms about the seaness of the sea and how this might be factored into our particular disciplinary concerns. \nThis paper takes up this challenge by thinking about the literary consequences of the colonial Custom House which assumed responsibility for copyright policy and censorship.  The paper places the Custom House in the context of the ecology of the littoral and the port city\, showing how these helped shaped the protocols and procedures of Customs officials and hence the way in which they read and dealt with printed matter.  The work is framed within a larger theoretical rubric\, hydrocolonialism\, which the paper will explain.   \n\n 
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/hydrocolonial-print-cultures-coast-custom-house-and-dockside-reading/
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